Improvement in clothes-driers



GEORGE L; woons.

improvement in Clothes-Briers. N0 127 206 I Patented May 28,1872.

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IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHE S-DRIERS. 0

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127306, dated May 28,1872.

SPEomIoArIoN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonen L. Woons, of Manchester, Hillsboro'ughcounty, in the State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Machines for Drying Clothes; and I hereby declarethe following to be a full and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawin g forming part of thisspecification.

The nature or essence of my invention consists in the particularconstruction, combination, and arrangement of devices forming theimprovements described in the following specification, and representedin the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is "an elevation of amachine with my improvements, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same with someof the arms extended to receive the clothes toibe dried.

In the above-mentioned drawing, A is a piece of plank, which may befastened to the wall or side of the room where it is wanted to be used;and it may have a rabbet at each edge on the back side, as shown at B B,Fig.

1, for the lugs G O of the traversingstands D and E to traverse in asthey are moved up and down. The traversing-stand D. is made, in the formshown in the drawing, of cast metal, with a semicircular arched edge orflange, F, which is perforated to receive the arms or levers G G, onwhich'the clothes are hung to be dried. This stand D is fastened to theupper end of the board H, which-has the stand E fastened to its lowerend, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, so that the board H and the twostands D and E form a traversing-carriage to run up and down on theplank A. The stand E is made with a semicircular front about the samesize (or less) than the stand D, and has a perpendicular flangeprojecting upward around its outer edge to form a semicircular box tohold the lower ends of the arms G G when they are arranged in a verticalposition, as shown in Fig. 1, the stand D supporting the upper ends. Totraverse the carriage before mentioned, I make a stand, I, in the formshown in the drawing, and fasten it to the plankA at or near its lowerend, which stand is provided with a horizontal shaft, J, turned by thehand-crank K, and carrying the bevelgear L, which drives a pinion on thevertical shaft or screw N, which has its lower end stepped in a portionof the stand I behind the gear L. The upper part of the shaft N is ascrew fitted to a female screw in the stand E, so that, by turning thecrank K, the stand with the carriage may be traversed up or down, asdesired. The board H has a groove in it for the screw to turn in, whichgroove is covered by the piece P fastened to the board H. By puttingsome short cleats on the back of the plank A, and making the spacesunder the lugs O O wider, the plank may be used without rabbeting theedges,if preferred that way.

To use my improved clothes-drier, turn the crank and screw to run thecarriage down to a convenient height; then place the arms G G in ahorizontal position in the stand D, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing,and hang the clothes to be dried on the arms; then turn the crank andscrew so as to run the carriage up, and carry the clothes up neartheceilin g where the air is warmest and where they will dry soonest,out of the way of persons heads who may be passing under the clothes.clothes are dry the carriage may be run down and the clothes removed,and the arms placed in a vertical position out of the .way.

Having described my improved clothesdrier, I claim- The combination andarrangement of the vertical plank A, traversing-stands D and E, arms GG, board H, stand I, shaft J, crank K, gear L with pinion andscrew-shaft N, constructed to operate as described.

GEORGE L. WOODS.

Witnesses:

E. P. RICHARDSON, B. P. GILLEY.

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